
Day: Nov 7, 2021


George Smith: Outer Hebrides and Stornoway Extracts c. 2011
My maternal grandfather – Arthur Gibson (1911-1997) – and George Smith (1924-2016) both sailed on the Royal Navy Patrol Service (RNPS) the HMS Beaumaris Castle

Email: Enquiry to Lowestoft Library: German U-Boat Surrender – May 8th – 1945 (7.11.2021)
Dear Suffolk Library I write, with considerable interest, concerning the provenance of the attached BBC article (from 2005) which states that its content originates from

Research: HMS Beaumaris Castle (FY 992) and the ‘Surrendered’ German U-Boat (8.5.1945) – Loch Ewe (Scottish Waters – North Atlantic)
Dear U-Boat Archive I am researching an incident reported by a number of British sailors that is believed to have happened during the late afternoon